The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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