We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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What force is more potent than love?
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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