In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY