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Small: Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I dont like, its always by Villa-Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, th
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginni
Igor Stravinsky
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky
"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal
Igor Stravinsky
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: My music is best understood by children and animals
Igor Stravinsky
"My music is best understood by children and animals"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions,
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: I am an inventor of music
Igor Stravinsky
"I am an inventor of music"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators
Igor Stravinsky
"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music th
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I g
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: What force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
"What force is more potent than love?"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end
Igor Stravinsky
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees ones self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven
Igor Stravinsky
"Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me to
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: I havent understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it
Igor Stravinsky
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebodys piano playing in my living room
Igor Stravinsky
"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, Composer
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Small: Conductors careers are made for the most part with Romantic music. Classic music eliminates the conductor we d
Igor Stravinsky
"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Small: Women... cant live with em... cant shoot em
"Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty Go
"Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness
"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are gen
"Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail but a man is happiest when he does not even no
"Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: There are some moments in life, some feelings one can only point to them and pass by
"There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children
"The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the necessity
"People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about ones
"One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: Most people cant understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do
"Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it.
"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my countrys fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh grea
"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: I agree with no ones opinion. I have some of my own
"I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: However much you knock at natures door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words
"However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: Deaths an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew
"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
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Small: The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent enough crimi
Ayn Rand
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws"
Ayn Rand, Writer
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