Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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I am an inventor of music.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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