I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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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.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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I am an inventor of music.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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