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 STRAVINSKYNothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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