What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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