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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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 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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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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