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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

Igor Stravinsky

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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Invention Music Myself
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Comment Music Pieces True
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Enough Listening Music
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Definite Music Point Succession
Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Improve One Liner Selective
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

One Liner Revolution
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself

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