In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYI know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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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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