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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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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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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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