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.
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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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