An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic 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.
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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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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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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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