Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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What force is more potent than love?
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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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 has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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