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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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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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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I am an inventor of music.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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