The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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 the coordination between man and time.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY