Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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