Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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What force is more potent than love?
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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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.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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