I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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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 profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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 am an inventor of music.
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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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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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 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 more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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