There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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