There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOld 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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 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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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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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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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