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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.
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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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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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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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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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