Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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 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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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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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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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