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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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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 haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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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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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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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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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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