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Danh ngôn của Igor Stravinsky (Sứ mệnh: 9)

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.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
What force is more potent than love?
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.