All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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