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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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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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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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A good composer does not imitate he steals.
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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 knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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