Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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 haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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