Quote #17

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

More from Igor Stravinsky

  1. 'Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.'
  2. 'Good composers don't borrow, they steal'
  3. 'Harpists spend 90% of their time tuning their harps and 10% playing out of tune.'
  4. 'Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.'
  5. 'Afterwards, after the concert, I heard them say: 'Too much noise'. And I wanted to ask: 'Where, exactly?''
  6. 'Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamon…
  7. 'The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love…
  8. 'Composers combine notes, that's all.'

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