Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

Igor Stravinsky

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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.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Distance
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Cultural Familiar Unknown
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Symphony
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Composition is selective improvisation.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Improve Selective
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Impose Oneself Precision
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Development Performance Threat
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Realization
Composition is frozen improvisation.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation
I am an inventor of music.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

General
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Humble Note
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

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