Author: Igor Stravinsky

Quotes

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

- 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.

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

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

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

- Igor Stravinsky

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

- Igor Stravinsky

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

- Igor Stravinsky

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

- Igor Stravinsky

What force is more potent than love?

What force is more potent than love?

- Igor Stravinsky

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

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

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

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

- Igor Stravinsky

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