One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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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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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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