There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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.
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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.
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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.
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.
Composition is selective improvisation.
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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.
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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