Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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Film 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.
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