Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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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 cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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