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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

Igor Stravinsky

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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

General Love Music Teaching Trouble
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
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
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Myself Sea Sick

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