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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

Igor Stravinsky

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
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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Creation Distance God Music Separate
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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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

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