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

Creation Invention Music Name
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Music Myself Pieces
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work

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