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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Igor Stravinsky

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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Back Oneself Path
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Composition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Improve One Liner Selective
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Drama Live Music Reading Relationship

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