It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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