Composition Quote by Igor Stravinsky Download Open image “Composition is selective improvisation.” — Igor Stravinsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composition Improvisation Inspirational Love Selective
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition. — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation. — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos? — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
