What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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