Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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