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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky

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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
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
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
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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Age Concentration Humiliation Old Pressure Time Work
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
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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

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