Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I am an inventor of music.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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 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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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