Talk:Igor Stravinsky

Should the last sentence of the quote that begins with "The over-publicized bit ..." read "I stand by the remark incidentally, though today..."? Can somebody please check the source on that one? Thank you.

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• "Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge."
  • Regarding Anton Webern

• "Afterwards, after the concert, I heard them say: 'Too much noise'. And I wanted to ask: 'Where, exactly?'"
  • Regarding a comment made of one of his concerts

• "Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right."

• "Harpists spend 90% of their time tuning their harps and 10% playing out of tune."

• "Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also."

• My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

• "Good composers don't borrow, they steal"

Mentioned in Duckworth, William (1999) Talking Music, Da Capo Press (ISBN 0-306-80893-5) pp.450

Compare:

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
  • T. S. Eliot, in Philip Massinger, in The Sacred Wood (1920)

• "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."