Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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