I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Composition is frozen improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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 selective 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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY