Exclusive Quote by Igor Stravinsky Download Open image “Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.” — Igor Stravinsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exclusive Flow Function Music Order Structure Time
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 Copy Share Image
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one,… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
“Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.” — George B. Dyson Copy Share Image
At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos? — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
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… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin. — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image
The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each… — Ram Swarup Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
