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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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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.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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I am an inventor of 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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