Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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 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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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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