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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

Igor Stravinsky

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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
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
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
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
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
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
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

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