The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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An artist is like a 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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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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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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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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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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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