I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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