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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 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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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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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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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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 haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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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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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 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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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