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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
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.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period

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