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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Igor Stravinsky

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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
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
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
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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
The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal

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