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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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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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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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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 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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An audience is an abstraction it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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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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