Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is selective improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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