The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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