Igor Stravinsky Quotes

I am an inventor of music. - Igor Stravinsky

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. - Igor Stravinsky

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading. - Igor Stravinsky

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. - Igor Stravinsky

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. - Igor Stravinsky

A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky

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