An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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