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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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