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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky
Music, Jazz And Life, Doe
In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Igor Stravinsky
Music, Thinking, Bars

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky
Funny, Music, Witty
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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
Music, Men, Order
Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Igor Stravinsky
Music, Art, Creativity
"The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky
Music, Ducks, Effort
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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, Appreciation, Humorous
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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
Inspirational, Music, Opportunity
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I live neither in the past nor in the future. 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
Music, Past, Today
Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Igor Stravinsky
Music, Moving, Order

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

Igor Stravinsky
Music, Years, Challenges
Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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