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.
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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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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