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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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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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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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