Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY