Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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 knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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