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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Igor Stravinsky

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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Abstraction Audience Person Taste
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Forget Music Sound
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Generation Nature Way
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Confusion Imagination Invention
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation One Liner
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
The 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.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

One Liner Revolution
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Flow Music Order Structure Time

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

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