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Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: '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.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 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.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'A good composer does not imitate; he steals.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'My music is best understood by children and animals.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'What force is more potent than love?' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 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.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.' Read More
Odysseus 12/10/23 Odysseus 12/10/23 Auguste Rodin: 'Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.' Read More