Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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