I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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 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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