The Rite of Spring

Also known as Rite of Spring

Notable quotes

“As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul. Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe.”
— The Musical Digest (1946)
“My music is best understood by children and animals.”
— Igor Stravinsky. The Observer, Oct 8, 1961.
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”
— 1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.”
— Quoted by Géza Szamosi, The Twin Dimensions: Inventing Time and Space (New York, 1986), p. 232.
“Much of the music is a Merzbild, put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying the Messenger. I also mean the fusion of such widely divergent types of music as the Folies Bergeres tune at No. 40 ('The girls enter, kicking') and the Wagnerian 7th-chords at Nos. 58 and 74."”
— p. 27: Dialogues.
“It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.”
— p. 188.

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