What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYI haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with 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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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