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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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.
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Essential Man Meaning Unity

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