Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposers combine notes, that’s all.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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