Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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