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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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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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand

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