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• Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Joy, Needs

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Order, Flow, Structure

  "The Twin Dimensions: Inventing Time and Space". Book by Géza Szamosi, p. 232, 1986.

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• Music is...the coordination between man and time.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Men, Coordination, Music Is

  Igor Stravinsky (1958). “An autobiography”

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• Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

  Igor Stravinsky

  Musical, Pieces, Villa

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Inspirational, Music, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Vocabulary, Light, Perfect

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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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

  Christian, Distance, Church

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• Composers combine notes, that's all.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Notes, Composer

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Silence, Foolish, Possibility

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• Composition is frozen improvisation.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Frozen, Improvisation, Composition

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• All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music Is, Impulse, Succession

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Sin, Undone, Forgiven

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• Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Genius, Mediocrity, Stealing

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• We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Duty

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Men, Realizing, Domain

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Simple, Artist, People

  "Expositions and Developments". Book by Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, pp. 113-114, 1959.

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• My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Childhood, Waiting, Hell

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1981). “Memories and Commentaries”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Want, Tricks

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1981). “Memories and Commentaries”, p.92, Univ of California Press

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• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Appreciation, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Dream, Criticism, Rodents

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• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Work, Food, Inspiration

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Years, Twenties, Today

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• Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ignorance, Cutting, Perfect

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• I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Should Have, Talent, Born

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