What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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