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.
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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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 further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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