In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYFilm music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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