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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt 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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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