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.
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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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