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

Igor Stravinsky

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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.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

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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Distance
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Drink Favorite
Composition is frozen improvisation.

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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation
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

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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Audience Performance
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Lyrics
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

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 Element Fluctuation
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Oneself Truffle
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.
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Day Small
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Way
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Pieces
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

IGOR STRAVINSKY

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Order Reproduction
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

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