Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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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 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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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