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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
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 is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature

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