Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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.
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I am an inventor of music.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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