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:: Famous
Quotations by Igor Stravinsky (9 Quotations) |
:: 1882-1971, Russian Composer |
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
~ Igor Stravinsky - [Music]
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
~ Igor Stravinsky - [Cinema]
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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 - [Present]
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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 - [Mistakes]
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
~ Igor Stravinsky - [Love]
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
~ Igor Stravinsky - [Sin]
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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 - [Music]
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
~ Igor Stravinsky - [Music]
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