Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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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 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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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