I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYJust as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent 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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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