I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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