I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
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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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY