To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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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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