The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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