There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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