Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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 knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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