What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYLesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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