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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."

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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."

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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

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"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

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"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."

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"When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines."

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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."
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"I am an inventor of music."
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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."
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"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time."
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"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
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