Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLook for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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