It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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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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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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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’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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 faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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I am an inventor of music.
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