Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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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 God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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