I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I am an inventor of music.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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