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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.

Igor Stravinsky

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
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
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music

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