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 STRAVINSKYWhat force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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