Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Much of the music is a Merzbild, put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying the Messenger. I also mean the fusion of such widely divergent types of music as the Folies Bergeres tune at No. 40 ('The girls enter, kicking') and the Wagnerian 7th-chords at Nos. 58 and 74.'
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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.
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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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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism-Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete-opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.