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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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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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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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