Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

#Art

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What...

#Age, #Funny

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

#Inspiration

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name...

#Drink

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

#Appetite, #Inspiration, #Work

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not...

#Life, #Living

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

#God, #Life, #Living

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too...

#Music

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

#Igor Stravinsky

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

#Igor Stravinsky

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

#Igor Stravinsky

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of...

#Igor Stravinsky