Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real 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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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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