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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.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Time
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Essential Man Meaning Unity
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Music Myself Pieces
To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Back Oneself Path
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Abstraction Audience Person Taste
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Enough Listening Music
Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

One Liner Revolution
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Pieces Song
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Chaos One Liner
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

General Love Music Teaching Trouble
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Instrument Live Music Play Silence

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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