Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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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 is the coordination between man and time.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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 constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Film 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.
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