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Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present Picture Quote #1

To continue in one path is to go backward Picture Quote #1

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune Picture Quote #1

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn Picture Quote #1

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end Picture Quote #1

What force is more potent than love? Picture Quote #1

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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators Picture Quote #1

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal Picture Quote #1

Composers combine notes, that’s all Picture Quote #1

A good composer does not imitate; he steals Picture Quote #1

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any Picture Quote #1

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music Picture Quote #1

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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares Picture Quote #1

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself Picture Quote #1

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation Picture Quote #1

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration Picture Quote #1

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse Picture Quote #1

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability Picture Quote #1

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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity Picture Quote #1

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains that shackle the spirit Picture Quote #1

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading Picture Quote #1

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge Picture Quote #1

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? Picture Quote #1

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time Picture Quote #1

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution Picture Quote #1

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending Picture Quote #1

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do Picture Quote #1

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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) To continue in one path is to go backward (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) What force is more potent than love? (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Composers combine notes, that’s all (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) A good composer does not imitate; he steals (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains that shackle the spirit (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) 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 (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) 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 (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) 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 Stravinsky Quotes) The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending (Igor Stravinsky Quotes) The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do (Igor Stravinsky Quotes)

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