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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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