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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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