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"27 Igor Stravinsky Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 17 June 1882. Died: 6 April 1971 | Composer | Pianist |
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
After End Finish Long
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Able Better Building Church
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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.

Am Book Drama Film
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Also Duck Effort Hear
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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.

About Always Aware Composer
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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Animals Best Children Music
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Am Animal Animals Anymore
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Constraint Constraints Execution More
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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.

Appreciation General Instead Love
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Appetite Beginning Brings Eating
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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?

Always Hear Like Music
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Anonymity Bach Been Born
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Artists Borrow Great Lesser
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Create Dynamic Force Love
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Bar Felt Life Music
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Alone Being Essence Love
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What force is more potent than love?
Force Love More Potent
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Assumptions Chiefly Composer Exposure
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Cannot Forgiven Only Sins
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Harp Lives Out Percent
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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.

Am Bring Cannot Forth
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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.

Any Becoming Ending Endless
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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.

Each Exhaust Genius Human
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Burn Cannot Itself Kindle
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Artist Gives His Imitators
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Careers Classic Conductor Conductors
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Igor Stravinsky Quotes & Sayings