The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in 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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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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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