Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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