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Famous Igor Stravinsky Quotes
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.”
“Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.”
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.”
“A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.”
Source: Themes and episodes
“To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.”
Source: Retrospectives and Conclusions
Source: Expositions and Developments
“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
“Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.”
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”
Source: An autobiography
Source: An autobiography
Source: An autobiography
“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”
“What force is more potent than love?”
Source: An autobiography
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Source: Themes and episodes