We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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The 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.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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