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.
"Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky" was a Russian (and later, a naturalized French and American) composer, pianist and conductor. He is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential 20th-century classical music/composers of the 20th century.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous composers! More Igor Stravinsky on Wikipedia.To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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.
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
What force is more potent than love?
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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