The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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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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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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