Igor Stravinsky Quotes
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
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Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.
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I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
