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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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