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Composition is frozen improvisation.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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 is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself

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