Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYGood composers don’t borrow, they steal.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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