The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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I am an inventor of music.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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