The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Film 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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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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