What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYLook for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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