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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I am an inventor of music.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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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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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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