39 ordspråk av Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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