Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
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I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
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
Igor Stravinsky
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| Picasso and Stravinsky in the center |
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| Albert Gleizes: Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, 1914 |
Music is given to us with the sole purpose
of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly,
the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force,
and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit.
A duck hears also.
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
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.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Afterwards, after the concert, I heard them say:
'Too much noise.' And I wanted to ask: 'Where, exactly?'
Igor Stravinsky
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
Igor Stravinsky
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music.
'Classic' music eliminates the conductor;
we do not remember him in it.
Igor Stravinsky
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| Walt Disney and Stravinsky |
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| Caricature of Stravinsky by Walt Disney |
A plague on eminence!
I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy,
and I am stared at wherever I go
like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo;
and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish),
but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Igor Stravinsky
I have learned throughout my life as a composer
chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions,
not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
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| http://marcos-moran.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html |
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life,
but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
Harpists spend 90% of their time tuning their harps
and 10% playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
Just as appetite comes by eating,
so work brings inspiration,
if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
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| http://www.sharon-edmunds.com/2011_03_01_archive.html |
I am in the present.
I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth.
I can know only what the truth is for me today.
That is what I am called upon to serve,
and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky
I was born out of due time in the sense that
by temperament and talent
I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach,
living in anonymity and composing regularly
for an established service and for God.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Money may kindle,
but it cannot by itself,
and for very long, burn.
Igor Stravinsky
The Church knew what the psalmist knew:
Music praises God.
Music is well or better able to praise him
than the building of the church and all its decoration;
it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Composers combine notes, that's all.
Igor Stravinsky
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time;
he is not always conscious of this,
but he is aware of it later
when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
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