What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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 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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and 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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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