To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposers combine notes, that’s all.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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