Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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 more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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