"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning……" — Igor Stravinsky
"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune."
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79 Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
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- I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if…
- The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man…
- A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he…
- The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than…
- My music is best understood by children and animals.
- Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
- The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing,…
- To continue in one path is to go backward.
- Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
- One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
- The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.