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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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 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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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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