Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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What force is more potent than love?
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