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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

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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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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.

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

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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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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

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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.

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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.

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Composer

Born: June 17th, 1882

Died: April 6th, 1971

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