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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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 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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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