"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

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He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)
More Igor Stravinsky quotes
"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
"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.
"Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic state to a regulated perfectly concious one whi...