What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYFilm music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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What force is more potent than love?
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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