Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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