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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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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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 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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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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