The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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An artist is like a 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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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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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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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