Igor Stravinsky Quotes About Music
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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The performance of 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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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