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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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 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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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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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 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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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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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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