Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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