Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning

Quote by Igor Stravinsky

Topics: Appetite Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Work Quotes

I am an inventor of music.

I am an inventor of music.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better...

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better...

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent...

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent...

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious...

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious...

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence...

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence...

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing...

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing...

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible...

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible...

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more...

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more...

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

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

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better...

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better...

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never...

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never...

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's...

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's...

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.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more...

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more...

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

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

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions,...

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions,...

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment...

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment...