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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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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
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 profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
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
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality

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