Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLook for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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