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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky

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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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