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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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What force is more potent than love?
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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