I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
IGOR STRAVINSKYInvention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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