To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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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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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. 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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