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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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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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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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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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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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