Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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 performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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