I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo continue in one path is to go backward.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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