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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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