We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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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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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I am an inventor of music.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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