A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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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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The 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.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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