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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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