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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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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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 haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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