Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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 God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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