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.
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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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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