Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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