The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYFilm 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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