One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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