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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
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
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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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal

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