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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Igor Stravinsky

Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Borrow One Liner Steal
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

General Love Music Teaching Trouble
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Confusion Imagination Invention
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

End Music Principle Reason Start
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Generation Nature Way
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Present Realization
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Artist
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Effort Listening
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Comment Music Pieces True
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Forget Music Sound
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Alone Essence Love Success

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

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