All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is selective improvisation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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