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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

Igor Stravinsky

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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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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.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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I am an inventor of music.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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