Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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