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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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I am an inventor of music.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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