The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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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 is the coordination between man and time.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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