Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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 we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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