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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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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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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 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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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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An audience is an abstraction it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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