Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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What force is more potent than love?
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY