Igor Stravinsky Famous Quotes
"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 monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'"
"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."
My music is best understood by children and animals.
"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."
Igor Stravinsky Quotations
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
William Strong
"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety."
Joe Moore
"There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it."
Andrew Schneider
"Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die."
Michio Kushi
It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.
Edna St Vincent Millay
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."
Alexander Chase
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Kahlil Gibran
"Words must be weighed, not counted."
Polish Proverb
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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