Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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