Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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