An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYGood composers don’t borrow, they steal.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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