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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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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Essential Man Meaning Unity
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
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

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