Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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