Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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