Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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