Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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