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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky 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.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky Composition is selective improvisation.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
Igor StravinskyIgor 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 StravinskyIgor Stravinsky My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean