All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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