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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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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience Person Taste
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
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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Knowledge Learning Life Mistake Pursuit Wisdom
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
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
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening

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