Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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What force is more potent than love?
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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The 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.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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