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Igor Stravinsky Quotes

«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»
«I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it»
«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.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | About: Work | Keywords: composer
«Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | Keywords: harps, tuning
«It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | About: Generations | Keywords: preceding
«Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?»
«A good composer does not imitate; he steals»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | Keywords: composer, steals
«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.»
«Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.»
«Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | Keywords: discernible

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