Igor Stravinsky Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
-
If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
-
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
-
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
-
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
-
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
-
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
-
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
-
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
-
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
-
A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
-
When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
-
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
-
The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
-
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
-
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
-
I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
-
I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
-
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
-
In Western Samoa native theory and vocabulary recognized the real pervert who was incapable of normal heterosexual response.
-
Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.
-
But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
-
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
