Quote #16
'Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.'
More from Igor Stravinsky
- 'Harpists spend 90% of their time tuning their harps and 10% playing out of tune.'
- My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
- 'Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.'
- 'Good composers don't borrow, they steal'
- 'Afterwards, after the concert, I heard them say: 'Too much noise'. And I wanted to ask: 'Where, exactly?''
- 'Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamon…
- '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…
- 'Composers combine notes, that's all.'