I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat 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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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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