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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

Igor Stravinsky

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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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Enough Listening Music
To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Back Oneself Path
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Force Love One Liner Strong
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Forgiveness One Liner Sin
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Animal Artist
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Difference Effort Listening
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

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