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Igor Stravinsky Quotes
«My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.»
«My music is best understood by children and animals.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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My Music
«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»
«Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading»
«Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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like it, Lobos, Music I, piece, piece of music, Villa-Lobos, villa
«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.»
«I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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assumptions, chiefly, composer, exposure, fount, founts, pursuits, throughout
«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»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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convoy, eminence, plague, royal, royal family, stared, stares, zoo
«I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monk»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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abstract painting, celebrated, comment, composed, de Kooning, eleven, handed, monk, Mozart, The Negative