I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they 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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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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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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