Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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I am an inventor of music.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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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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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
IGOR STRAVINSKY