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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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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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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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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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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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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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