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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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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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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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 haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Composers combine notes, that's all.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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