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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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