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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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