Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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