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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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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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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 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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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