Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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