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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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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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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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