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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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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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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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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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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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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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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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 am an inventor of music.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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