Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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