Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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