The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
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Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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I am an inventor of music.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky in Observer (8 October 1961)
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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
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I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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