The best Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

The best Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June 1882 - 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with citizenship in France (from 1934) and the United States (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music.

So much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.