Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYDoomed 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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