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 STRAVINSKYSilence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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