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Igor Stravinsky Inspirational Quotes (59)

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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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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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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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