One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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