Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMoney may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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What force is more potent than love?
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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 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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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