Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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