What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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