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Composers combine notes, that’s all.

Igor Stravinsky

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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
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
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
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Establishment Man Music Ourselves Purpose Time
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality

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