Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius 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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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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 has received.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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