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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Igor Stravinsky

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Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Describe Improvisation One Liner
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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 trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand

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