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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
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

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