Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is selective improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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