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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.

Igor Stravinsky

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Commission Oneself Trick
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Comment Music Pieces True
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Essential Man Meaning Unity
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Borrow One Liner Steal
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Enough Listening Music
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Music Myself Pieces
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Compose Note One Liner
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Artist
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Hurry Myself Time
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Back Oneself Path
I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Invention Music Myself

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