The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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I am an inventor 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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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