Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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