Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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 is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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