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

Igor Stravinsky

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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal

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