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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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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 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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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.
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