Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo continue in one path is to go backward.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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