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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian Composer
Born: Jun 17, 1882
Died: Apr 6, 1971
Life Love More Music Time Will
Related authors: Frederic Chopin Gustav Mahler Hector Berlioz Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Parry Ludwig van Beethoven Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. Igor Stravinsky
Today Truth Me Truth Is Tomorrow Will Only Know Am Cannot Forth Serve Present Bring
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Igor Stravinsky
Merit Also Duck Hear Hears Effort Listen Just
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky
Spend Harp Out Percent Tune Tuning Lives Playing
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. Igor Stravinsky
Work Time Will Later Composer About He Knows Always Real His Whole Suddenly Aware Conscious Thinks
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. Igor Stravinsky
Constraint Constraints More Only Self Obtain Execution Precision Serve
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. Igor Stravinsky
Forgiveness Undone Only Sins Forgiven Cannot
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. Igor Stravinsky
Work Beginning Eating Inspiration Just Appetite Brings
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. Igor Stravinsky
Good Imitate Composer Steals He Does
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
Me Genius Opportunities Will Variety Never Know Exhaust Offer Human Rhythm Notes Twelve Each
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. Igor Stravinsky
Family Animal Animals Idiot Dare Member Cross Eminence Like Known Without Am Go Been Die Anymore Wherever Plague Stared Street Hardly Royal Royal Family Zoo
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky
Music Time Man Sole Sole Purpose Given Purpose Between Particularly Establishing Order Us Including Coordination Things
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
Music Relationship Book Somebody Reading Living Drama Piano Am Same Room Should Film Film Music Living Room Playing
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. Igor Stravinsky
Imitators Prestige Gives Real His Artist
What force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky
Love More Potent Force Than
I am an inventor of music. Igor Stravinsky
Music Inventor Am
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
Love Music Appreciation Respect People Too Much Trouble Too General Instead Taught To Love Much Should
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky
Love Alone Penetrating Very Essence Being Succeed
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? Igor Stravinsky
Music Like Piece Always Hear Whenever Why

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