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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening

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