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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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One Liner Revolution
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
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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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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

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