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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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.
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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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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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