Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo continue in one path is to go backward.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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