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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky

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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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