The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I am an inventor of music.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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