The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY