What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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What force is more potent than love?
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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