Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYFilm 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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 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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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