The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYNothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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