Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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