I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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