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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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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 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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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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