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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
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.
Quotes By Igor Stravinsky
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know...
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music....
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that...
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to...
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes...
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy...
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of...
Quotes About Music
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I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and...
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One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the...
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I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to...
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed I agree with you.
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The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music...
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I didn't really see the British punk movement if that's what it was as...
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent...
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I...