Igor Stravinsky Quotes - Famous Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
Born: 1882-06-17
Died: 1971-04-06
Igor Stravinsky Biography
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
- Igor Stravinsky
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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
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
- Igor Stravinsky
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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
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
- Igor Stravinsky
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
- Igor Stravinsky
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
- Igor Stravinsky
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What force is more potent than love?
- Igor Stravinsky
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
- Igor Stravinsky
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