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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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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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