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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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 one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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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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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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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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