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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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 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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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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