The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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