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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

Igor Stravinsky

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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
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
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
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Drama Live Music Reading Relationship
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
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
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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End Music Pieces Song

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