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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
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
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
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
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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 with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time

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