Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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