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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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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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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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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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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 continue in one path is to go backward.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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