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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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