It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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