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Igor Stravinsky

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My music is best understood by children and animals.


— Igor Stravinsky


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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.


— Igor Stravinsky


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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.


— 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.


— Igor Stravinsky


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I am an inventor of music.


— Igor Stravinsky


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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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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


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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.


— Igor Stravinsky


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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.


— Igor Stravinsky


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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.


— 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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