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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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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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