The 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.
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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What force is more potent than love?
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I am an inventor of music.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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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 haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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