Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo continue in one path is to go backward.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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