My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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 trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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