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One Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
- It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
- To continue in one path is to go backward.
- One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
- The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
- I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
- 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…
- 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…
- One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
- The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
- 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…
- The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
- I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one…
- 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.
- It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare