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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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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 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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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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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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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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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
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 am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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 have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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