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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. - Igor Stravinsky
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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. - Igor Stravinsky
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My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. - Igor Stravinsky
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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. - Igor Stravinsky
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. - Igor Stravinsky
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. - Igor Stravinsky
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. - Igor Stravinsky
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. - Igor Stravinsky
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. - Igor Stravinsky
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What force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? - Igor Stravinsky
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. - Igor Stravinsky
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. - Igor Stravinsky
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky
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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. - Igor Stravinsky
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. - Igor Stravinsky
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. - Igor Stravinsky
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky
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