The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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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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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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