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Igor Stravinsky

Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

One Liner Revolution
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
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 true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Master Music Song
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Abstraction Audience Person Taste

To continue in one path is to go backward.

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