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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.

Igor Stravinsky

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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Myself Sea Sick
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation 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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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
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
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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

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