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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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I am an inventor of music.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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