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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKY