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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 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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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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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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.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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