I am an inventor of 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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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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