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Igor Stravinsky - From the Appreciation category:
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)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Artists category:
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Critics category:
I had a dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Emotion category:
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Finishing category:
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Improvisation category:
-paraphrased by Chris Brubeck...
Composition is selective improvisation. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Inspiration category:
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernable at the beginning. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Knowledge category:
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 Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Limitations category:
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit... and the arbitrariness serves only to obtain precision of execution. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Music category:
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Music category:
We have a duty toward music, namely to invent it. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Observation category:
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)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Opportunity category:
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all human genius will never exhaust. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Time category:
Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Timeliness category:
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Understanding category:
My music is best understood by children and animals. (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky - From the Worth category:
The true creator may be recognized by his ability to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. (Igor Stravinsky)
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