Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThere is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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