What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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