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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Igor Stravinsky

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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
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
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
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
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
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
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal

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