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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Forget Music Sound
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Sea Sick
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Back Oneself Path
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Principle Reason Start
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Prayer Reality Writing
My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Best Children Music Understand
Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation One Liner
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

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