To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky

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Igor Stravinsky

Born near Saint Petersburg in 1882, Igor Stravinsky later became a French and then American citizen, standing as one of the twentieth century's most important composers. His ballet The Rite of Spring provoked a near-riot at its 1913 Paris premiere and fundamentally changed how composers understood rhythm. Traversing three distinct creative periods, Russian, neoclassical, and serial, he drove the development of modernist music and was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the century.

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Source: Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (1959)Verified

Igor Stravinsky's Other Quotes

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.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

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