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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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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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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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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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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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