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.
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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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