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

Igor Stravinsky

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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
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

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