Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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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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