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.
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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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