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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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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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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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