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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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