Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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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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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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