Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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