Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYJust as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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