Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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 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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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