Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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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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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