I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I am an inventor of music.
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