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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I am an inventor of music.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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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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