My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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