Best quotes by Igor Stravinsky on Music

Checkout quotes by Igor Stravinsky on Music

• ‟ I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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• ‟ Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

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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.

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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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• ‟ My music is best understood by children and animals.

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

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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