Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKYDoomed 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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 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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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