Category - Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

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Igor Stravinsky

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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Igor Stravinsky

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

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Igor Stravinsky

I am an inventor of music.

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Igor Stravinsky

My music is best understood by children and animals.

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Igor Stravinsky

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

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Igor Stravinsky

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

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Igor Stravinsky

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

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Igor Stravinsky

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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Igor Stravinsky

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

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Igor Stravinsky

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

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Igor Stravinsky

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

– Igor Stravinsky

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