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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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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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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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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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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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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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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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