To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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