Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhy is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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