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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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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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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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