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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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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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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 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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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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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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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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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