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 STRAVINSKYThe one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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 principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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What force is more potent than love?
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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