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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Hurry Myself Time
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
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
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Forgiveness One Liner Sin
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Essential Expression Music Nature
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction

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