I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMoney may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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