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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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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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