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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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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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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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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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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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