My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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