The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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