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Love Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
- Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
- To continue in one path is to go backward.
- One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
- The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
- Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
- Composers combine notes, that's all.
- Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
- Good composers don't borrow, they steal
- We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
- I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had…
- Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
- Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
- The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
- Composition is selective improvisation.
- The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love…
- In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
- What force is more potent than love?
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