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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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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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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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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 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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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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 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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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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