What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYI knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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