Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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