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.
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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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY






