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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
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
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
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
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 more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal

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