There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Composers combine notes, that's all.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance.
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