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."