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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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End Music Principle Reason Start
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Chance Control Depression Element Fluctuation
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Ability Creation Humble Note True Worth

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