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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Igor Stravinsky

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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Best Children Music Understand
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Deep Fame Myself Risk Save Shame Silence
I am an inventor of music.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Artist Creation Gift Hands Observation Talent
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
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
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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