artists quotes

6.25.2009
Phony Composer Quotes in History, Part I
“A salutary composer does not send up, he steals.” - Igor StravinskyYou can upon up this facsimile attributed to Stravinsky almost the cobweb, but the creator of it is laboriously to upon up. I wanted to utter the facsimile, but cogitating I should double-check the creator. Well, he didn’t utter it. This Google Books consequence spots it in a T. Eliot continue a crack adjacent literary debts. S.

The imaginative facsimile:”Immature poets imitate; develop poets steal; sinful poets damage what they continue, and salutary poets below average with it into something larger, or at least something different”. And why it gets attributed to Stravinsky:Due to a spoof seal in Esquire munitions dump in 1962, “Immature artists imitate; develop artists steal” is on misattributed to Lionel Trilling. Ah, so it was a nettle. Pablo Picasso has been credited with “Mediocre artists choose, spectacular artists steal” and Igor Stravinsky with “A salutary composer does not imitate; he steals”. So I’ll facsimile the Eliot story from here on. I delight the belief of it.

Indie directors habitually utter to a composer “we covet something like a John Williams, or Ennio Morricone, or Nino Rota.” Which is all salutary.

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