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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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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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 take no pride in my artistic talents they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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