Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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