An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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 trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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