Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration.

—Igor Stravinsky

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About Igor Stravinsky

Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist...

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

—Igor Stravinsky

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 wisdom and knowledge.

—Igor Stravinsky

What force is more potent than love?

—Igor Stravinsky

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Fake food — I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut — is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

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Never eat more than you can lift.

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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

—Johnny Carson

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There's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis, if you can get people to eating normally, things get better.

—Madeleine L'Engle