We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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 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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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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