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

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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I am an inventor of music.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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