The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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