Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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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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