Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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