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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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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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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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 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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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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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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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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