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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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I am an inventor of music.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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