Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY