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Wisdom

Igor Stravinsky | wisdom

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.

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Truth

Igor Stravinsky | truth

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

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romantic

Igor Stravinsky | romantic

Conductors’ careers are made for the most part with ‘Romantic’ music. ‘Classic’ music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

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Igor Stravinsky | respect

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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relationship

Igor Stravinsky | relationship

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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music

Igor Stravinsky | music

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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music

Igor Stravinsky | music

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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music

Igor Stravinsky | music

I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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Love

Igor Stravinsky | love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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Life

Igor Stravinsky | life

I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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