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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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An audience is an abstraction it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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 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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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