A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYInvention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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 wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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