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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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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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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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