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• Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Confused, Imagination, Invention

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Dream, Inspiration, Artist

  "Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons". Book by Igor Stravinsky, 1947.

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• Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Long, Age, Pressure

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• Composition is frozen improvisation.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Frozen, Improvisation, Composition

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• Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Moving, Order

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• The performance of 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

  Music, Years, Challenges

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Would Be, Needs, Music Is

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• It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Relationship, Nature, Grandma

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• Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Fashion, Hot, Avant Garde

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• We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Flying, Too Late, Speed

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Confused, Imagination, Doe

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Judging, Criticism

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Silence, Shame, Fame

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• The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Pieces, Music Is, Comment

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Greatness, Masterpiece

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• Good composers don't borrow, they steal

  Igor Stravinsky

  Stealing, Composer

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Real, Writing, Mass

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1981). “Expositions and Developments”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Elements, Chance, Fluctuation

  "Themes and Conclusions". Book by Igor Stravinsky, p. 33, 1982.

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• An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Artist, Pigs

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• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Romantic, Careers, Classic

  In Robert Craft 'Conversations with Igor Stravinsky' (1958)

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• I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

  Igor Stravinsky

  Sea, Drunk, Sick

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