Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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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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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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