The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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 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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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