I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt 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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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