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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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