Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposers combine notes, that’s all.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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