Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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