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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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