One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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We 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.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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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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