I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
More Quotes from Igor Stravinsky:
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.Igor Stravinsky
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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone connected to it to hell.
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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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