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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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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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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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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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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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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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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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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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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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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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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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