I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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