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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Igor Stravinsky

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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
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
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time

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