The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I am an inventor of music.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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