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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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 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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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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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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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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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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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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