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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.

Igor Stravinsky

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
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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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
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

Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
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
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
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.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Artist
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.

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