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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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