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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 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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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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