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Composer Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
- A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
- Composers combine notes, that's all.
- Good composers don't borrow, they steal
- A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
- The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when…
- I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of…
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