All 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
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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.
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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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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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.
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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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