Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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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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What 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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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 knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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