My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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