Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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