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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I never understood the need for a live audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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