Igor Stravinsky Quotes

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Period
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Imitation Steal
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Day Small
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Film 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.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Film 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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Drama
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Steal
Composers combine notes, that’s all.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Compose Note
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Flow Order Structure
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Steal

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