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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick

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