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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Igor Stravinsky

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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Art Chaos One Liner
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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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.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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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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