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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
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
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship

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