Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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