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 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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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