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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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 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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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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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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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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