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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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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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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close 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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY