Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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