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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Igor Stravinsky

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What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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 frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
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
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
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 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 trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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

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