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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 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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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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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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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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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