Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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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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