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Igor Stravinsky Inspirational Quotes (59)

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I take no pride in my artistic talents they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
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I never understood the need for a live audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
Igor Stravinsky
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