Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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