Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne’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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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 force is more potent than love?
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