Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLook for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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