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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: И́горь Фёдорович Страви́нский, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj]; 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.

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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

Close, Eye, Eyes, Shantaram, Symbols, Waiting

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

Greatness, Likely, Masterpiece, Masterpieces, Nothing

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.

Music, Appreciation, Humorous, Taught, General

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

Art, Artist, Communion, Joy, Needs, Postulates

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.

Able, Church, Ornament, Ornaments, Psalmist

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Age, High, Long, Pressure, Time

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.

Awareness, Real, Thinking, Thinks, Whole, Work

Composition is selective improvisation.

Composition, Improvisation, Selective

We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

Already, Ask, Flying, Instrument, Speed, Too Late

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Moving, Music, Order, State, Vitality

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.

Book, Drama, Relationship, Room, Same

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

Coordination, Man, Men, Music, Music Is

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Including, Men, Music, Order, Time

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

Art, Conviction, Criticism, Judging, Shows, Works

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Freedom, Meaningful, Obstacles, Self, Shackle, Strength

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.

Cutting, Doomed, Ignorance, Knowledge, Perfect

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Art, Chaos, Opposites, Organized

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Art, Art Is, Controlled, Freer, Limited

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Igor, Name, Names, Scotch, Thinking

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.

Years, Twenties, Today, Conviction, Dangerous, Belief

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