Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYInvention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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