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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Igor Stravinsky

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
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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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick

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