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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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 haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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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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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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