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 STRAVINSKYAll you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I am an inventor of music.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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