Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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