What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY






