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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Igor Stravinsky

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
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
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
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

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