The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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