Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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