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From Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
- Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition…
- What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
- Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
- The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the…
- 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…
- A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot…
- Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning
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