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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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