Igor stravinsky
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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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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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been...
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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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So there is a story about the composer Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky was about to start a new ballet. But instead of starting completely from scratch, he pulled out some of his favorite classic...
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