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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Invention Music Name
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
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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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Cultural Familiar Unknown
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
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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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand

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