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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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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
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
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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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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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
I am an inventor of music.
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Invention Music Myself
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
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
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Criticism Day Dreams Music Painting Small
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
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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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve One Liner Selective
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

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