Quote #11
'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.'
More from Igor Stravinsky
- 'Composers combine notes, that's all.'
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- 'Afterwards, after the concert, I heard them say: 'Too much noise'. And I wanted to ask: 'Where, exactly?''
- 'What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to cha…
- 'Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.'
- 'It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slice…
- 'Harpists spend 90% of their time tuning their harps and 10% playing out of tune.'