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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
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
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

Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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