My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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