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 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 wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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