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Composition is frozen improvisation.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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