Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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 will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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