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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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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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Architect Build Himself Home Invention Live
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Alcohol Drink Favorite God Myself
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Difference Effort Listening
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
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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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
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
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
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True

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