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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
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
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
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Sea Sick

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