Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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I am an inventor of music.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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