Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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