The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposers combine notes, that’s all.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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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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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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