Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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