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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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 must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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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