To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKYInvention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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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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