Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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What force is more potent than love?
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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