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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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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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