Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKYHurry? I have no time to hurry.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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