Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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