Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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We 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.
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