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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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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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I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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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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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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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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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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