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.
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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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 never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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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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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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