I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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 the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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