I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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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 never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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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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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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