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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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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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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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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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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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