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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?

Igor Stravinsky

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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
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
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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

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