A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThere is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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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 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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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 never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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