My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMediocrity borrows, genius steals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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