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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
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
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
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
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
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
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
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
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

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