Composer Quote by Igor Stravinsky Download Open image “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.” — Igor Stravinsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Doe Music Musical Stealing
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos? — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
