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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
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
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Artist Music Myself Pieces
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Alone Essence Love Success
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
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Forget Music Sound
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

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