Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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.
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I am an inventor of music.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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