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Art
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
-Igor Stravinsky, "London Magazine", March, 1967
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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
-Igor Stravinsky
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Freedom
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
-Igor Stravinsky
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Love
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What force is more potent than love?
-Igor Stravinsky
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
-Igor Stravinsky
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Mistakes
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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
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Money
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
-Igor Stravinsky
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Music
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-Igor Stravinsky
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
-Igor Stravinsky
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Present, the
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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.
-Igor Stravinsky
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Sin
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
-Igor Stravinsky
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Books by and about Igor Stravinsky