“ I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. ”
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“ The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man [sic] and time." Igor Stravinsky, quoted in DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of TwentiethCentury Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: PrenticeHall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 3. from Igor Stravinsky' Autobiography (1962). New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., p. 54. ”
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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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“ 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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“ In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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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 to the book I am reading. ”
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“ I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey… ”
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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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“ Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading. ”
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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 know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. ”
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“ Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. ”
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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 know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. ”
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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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“ Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
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“ I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey… ”
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“ Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3. ”
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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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