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.
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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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