Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic 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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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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What force is more potent than love?
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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