Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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