We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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