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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
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 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
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Revolution means turning the wheel.
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One Liner Revolution
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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Exhaust Genius Human Myself Rhythm Willing
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
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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Myself Prayer Reality Writing
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Art Artist Experience Himself Joy Share Unity

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