We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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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