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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Igor Stravinsky

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
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
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
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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 performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat

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