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Composition is selective improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Life Lyrics Music Nature
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
Music is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Time
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

One Liner Revolution
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Distance God Music Separate
My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Best Children Music Understand

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