I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
From Igor Stravinsky
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
What force is more potent than love?
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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