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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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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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