An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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.
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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 trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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