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Igor Stravinsky Inspirational Quotes (59)

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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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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 principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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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 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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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