Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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 principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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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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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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I am an inventor of music.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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