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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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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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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 take no pride in my artistic talents they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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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 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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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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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