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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

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
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
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.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Man Music Time
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
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.
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Belief Dangerous Oneself Right Sincere
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
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
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
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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General Love Music Teaching Trouble
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Clock Control Fly Instrument Journey Slow Time

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