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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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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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 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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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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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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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