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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

Igor Stravinsky

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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State

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