Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I am an inventor of music.
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The 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.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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