Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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