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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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