To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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I am an inventor of music.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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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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