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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Igor Stravinsky

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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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

General Love Music Teaching Trouble
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
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
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
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Essential Man Meaning Unity
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 faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
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.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work

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