Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhy is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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 never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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