Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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