Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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