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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.

Igor Stravinsky

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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Master Music Song
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
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
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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Compose Note One Liner
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
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 real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Conscious Himself Thinking Time Willing Work
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path

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