Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMediocrity borrows, genius steals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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 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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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