Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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 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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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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