I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLook for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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