Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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It 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.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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