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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Igor Stravinsky

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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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