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.
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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of 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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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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