Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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What force is more potent than love?
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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 more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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