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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Igor Stravinsky

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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Man Music Present Realization
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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