We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhy is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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.
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I am an inventor of music.
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