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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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 am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal

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