More from Igor Stravinsky

  1. 'Much of the music is a Merzbild, put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying th…
  2. '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…
  3. 'What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to cha…
  4. 'Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamon…
  5. 'It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slice…
  6. 'Afterwards, after the concert, I heard them say: 'Too much noise'. And I wanted to ask: 'Where, exactly?''
  7. 'The over-publicized bit about expression (or non-expression) was simply a way of saying that music is supra-personal and super-real and as…
  8. 'Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.'

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