Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Composition is frozen improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKY