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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Igor Stravinsky

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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Hurry Myself Time
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
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
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
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.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Sea Sick
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand

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