The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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What force is more potent than love?
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY