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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Igor Stravinsky

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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
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.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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
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
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.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle

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