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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation

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