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Igor Stravinsky

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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.


— Igor Stravinsky


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One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.


— Igor Stravinsky


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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.


— 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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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


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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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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.


— Igor Stravinsky


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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.


— Igor Stravinsky


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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?


— Igor Stravinsky


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By the late 1920s and 1930s the use by composers of neoclassicism had become widespread. Other pieces from the Russian period include: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale); Renard (1916); Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) (1918); and Les noces (The Wedding) (1923). From then until his wife's death in 1939 Stravinsky led a double life spending some time with his first family and the rest with Vera.

S. His "Russian phase" was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassical music. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso fugue and symphony).

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