The 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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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