It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKYHurry? I have no time to hurry.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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 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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