My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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 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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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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