Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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