An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is selective improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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