Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees 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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