” Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. “
” 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. “
” Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. “
” My music is best understood by children and animals. “
” I am an inventor of music. “
” 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. “
” I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. “
” The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. “
” Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. “
All 9 Igor Stravinsky Quotes about Music in picture
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