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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence

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