An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I am an inventor of music.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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 more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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