Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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 be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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