Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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 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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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