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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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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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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
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