I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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 the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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