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 controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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 am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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What force is more potent than love?
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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