Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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What force is more potent than love?
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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