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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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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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 haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music 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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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

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