Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with 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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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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