Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYFilm music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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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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