Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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 more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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I am an inventor of music.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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