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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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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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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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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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 must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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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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