Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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 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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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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