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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Igor Stravinsky

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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 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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work

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