We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYFilm 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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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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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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