Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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