What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is selective improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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 haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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