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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

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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
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 more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World

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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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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