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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Igor Stravinsky

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Cultural Familiar Unknown
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Confusion Imagination Invention
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Distance God Music Separate
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Improve One Liner Selective
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Himself Imitation Reality
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
The 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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Principle Reason Start
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Enough Listening Music

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

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