I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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