Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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