Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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.
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