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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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