Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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 trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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Music is 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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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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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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