Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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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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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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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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