Igor Stravinsky Quotes

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Igor Stravinsky

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy

• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Big
  • Club
  • Straight

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

  

  Yael Stone
  • Country
  • History
  • Australia

• I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Dare
  • Totally

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Always
  • Same
  • Supernatural

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Me
  • Never
  • Notes

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.

  

  Rachel True
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Wonder

• *** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'.\nif /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)

  

  Larry Wall
  • Naughty

• The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Path

• It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • Hurt
  • Stories
  • Forgiving

• I love strong looks, so to me, no makeup is strong. As long as it makes a statement, that's what I like. The girls look very real, and I'm probably the only makeup artist who will say that I love a woman without makeup.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Long
  • Real
  • Strong

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige