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.
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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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.
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