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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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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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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 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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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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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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