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Igor Stravinsky Quotes: The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
         

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.


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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.

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.



I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.



One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.



My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.



Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.



Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?



Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.



A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.



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

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



I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.





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