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Igor Stravinsky Quotes: The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
         

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being


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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.

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.



I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.



One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.



My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.



Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.



Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?



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.

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.



A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.



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

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



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.

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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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

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I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.



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