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Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Total quotes: 2

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Igor Stravinsky

Birthname

Educated At: Saint Petersburg State University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: France, United States Of America, Russian Empire

Occupations: Conductor, Jazz Musician, Choreographer, Pianist, Composer

Spouse: Vera De Bosset

Total quotes: 2

“If any of these pieces sounds like aboriginal folk music, it may be because my powers of fabrication were able to tap some unconscious 'folk' memory.”

— Igor Stravinsky, Memories and Commentaries

Tagged: Creative Third Hand, unconscious

“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees ones self of the chains that shackle the spirit. The arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain the precision of execution.”

— Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons(

Tagged: Constraints, Freedom Through Structure

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