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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

Igor Stravinsky · Art

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Igor Stravinsky

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Music

Igor Stravinsky

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

Life

Igor Stravinsky

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Truth

Igor Stravinsky

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Music