Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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 frozen improvisation.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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