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I am an inventor of music.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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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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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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An audience is an abstraction it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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