We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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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 is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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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