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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYHurry? I have no time to hurry.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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