Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKY