Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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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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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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